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VMware Horizon View High Availability

By : Andrew Alloway
Book Image

VMware Horizon View High Availability

By: Andrew Alloway

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
VMware Horizon View High Availability
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

View Security server failure checklist


Now, we will move onto failure testing for the View Security servers.

It's recommended that this failure checklist be carried out in a test environment prior to the environment being put into production. Ensure that the environment has adequate backups prior to testing.

Note that the loss of a View Security server will disconnect any connected sessions, but the View client should be able to restart the session on the other View Security server after it reconnects.

Run through each step and verify that VMware Horizon View is still working and can service new logins for external clients:

  1. Power off each host, one at a time. Determine if the Power On rules and DRS rules function and if the environment has enough failure capacity to run without a server.

  2. Power off each View Security server, one at a time. Determine if failover occurs successfully.

  3. Check whether each ESXi host is configured to power on after a power loss.

  4. Check whether the VM startup/shutdown on...